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The Feed the Future Food Safety Innovation Lab aims to support sustainable, high impact research that improves food safety in developing economies.

While Americans support federal spending on education, healthcare, and Social Security, there partisan divides on other key issues.

The Council’s Katelyn Jones examines women in science and the gender dimensions of agriculture.

Penny Abeywardena explains how the New York experience demonstrates city diplomacy’s impact.

COP15 set new targets for protecting ecosystems, but funding, implementation, and a lack of global attention to biodiversity give pause for Chris Morris.

How can the US confront human rights abuses in China, without robbing athletes of the opportunity to compete on the world stage?

This Earth Day, one plant breeder reflects on the food security promise of innovative biotechnology and how it has been misunderstood.

This paper offers actions businesses, governments, foundations, and community organizations can explore to ramp up ecosystems for future youth entrepreneurs.

The 2020 Chicago Council on Global Affairs-University of Texas at Austin survey explores to what extent Democratic, Republican, and Independent foreign policy professionals support Biden’s international agenda.

Around the world, cities continue to protect the basic human rights of vulnerable populations in the face of fierce opposition from national governments.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog by Madeleine Nicholson checks in to see if the world is on track to achieve the lofty Sustainable Development Goals.

In this blog post from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Jacqueline Hughes discusses the sustainability of food systems.

A Council working paper shows the climate benefits of shared mobility, but urban leaders must implement policies that make it safer and more accessible.

A global survey shows the public perceives COVID-19 as the world's greatest health threat and nearly two-thirds of respondents believe the vaccine should be compulsory.

With vaccination efforts under way, some hope that the end of the pandemic is in sight, while others feel uneasy due to distribution issues and immense pressures on the health care system.

Agriculture has great potential for carbon offsets, but implementation will be complicated.

Americans and Russians agree on few matters as each believe the other is influencing their domestic affairs.

Federal investment in space technology is crucial to help farmers fight climate change—this generation's moonshot.

Survey data shows Sanders supporters are concerned about global overreach and that it comes at the expense of the economy and general quality of life.

Craig Kafura and Karl Friedhoff analyze findings of a recent poll examining American public opinion on US relations with Japan.